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What things were invented without government help?

RJ~PWCM~JLA 2012/08/18 00:38:09
Here's my back-of-the-envelope list. Please add to it!

When it's done, we'll print it out and send it to Mr. You Didn't Build That. On a laser printer. Via FedEx.

(Can't wait for the Libbys to "announce" that someone who invented something on this list once received a government dollar somewhere along the way!)

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Air conditioning
Airplane
Braille
Cotton gin
Electricity generation
Electricity transmission
Elevator
Escalator
Film camera
Gasoline and other petroleum distillates
Gunpowder
Integrated circuit
Internal combustion engine
Kevlar
Laser
Light bulb
Liquid-fueled rocket
Mass production
Morse code
Motion pictures
Mr. Coffee
Nylon
Penicillin
Phonograph
Photographic processes
Printing press
Radio (AM)
Radio (FM)
Roll film
Steam engine
Steel making
Telegraph
Telephone
Telescope
Television
Transistor
Vacuum tube
Vulcanized rubber


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  • akgold Proggy 2012/08/19 22:57:21
    akgold
    +1
    More recent?
    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." –Joe Biden, referring to Barack Obama at the beginning of the 2008 Democratic primary campaign, Jan. 31, 2007 (Source)

    "You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.... I'm not joking." --Joe Biden, in a private remark to an Indian-American man caught on C-SPAN, June, 2006 (Watch video clip)
  • Proggy akgold 2012/08/20 00:18:13
  • akgold Proggy 2012/08/20 02:32:09
    akgold
    I call you a racist. Why did you jump to the conclusion Newt was referencing race? You are aware that there are poor white kids? More than any other group? But when you hear poor children you automatically assume black and latino? You are so busy listening for your dog whistles you miss your own screaming racism. So common among liberals.
  • akgold Proggy 2012/08/19 22:58:26 (edited)
    akgold
    +1
    Bill Clinton talking to Ted Kennedy about Barack Obama,
    "A few years ago this guy would have been getting us coffee."!
  • Proggy akgold 2012/08/20 00:00:11
  • akgold Proggy 2012/08/20 02:32:55
    akgold
    It was documented by TED KENNEDY you moron!
  • SW akgold 2012/08/20 12:31:40
    SW
    And that's not even racist! It's an inspiring statement about how far we've come as a society! "A few years ago we were a more deeply racist society!"

    Racism is not words. it's a physical consequence. Republicans suppressing black voters by making it more difficult in districts with more black people THAT'S racism.
  • akgold SW 2012/08/20 15:10:24
    akgold
    +1
    You are such a moron!!!!
    Ted Kennedy wasn't inspired by his words, he was ENRAGED by them.

    You are the racist, thinking blacks and other minorities are not capable of meeting a few simple requirements.
    As has been said ad nauseum, there are all sorts of requirements for ID in this society. Why should voting be any different? I don't hear you wailing about how people can't cash checks or get government assistance because they can't identify themselves!
  • HOMBRE Proggy 2012/08/20 00:46:30
  • Proggy HOMBRE 2012/08/20 00:48:48
  • HOMBRE Proggy 2012/08/20 00:53:02
    HOMBRE
    +2
    Being you luv your Obama so much
    obama blow up doll
  • Proggy HOMBRE 2012/08/20 01:00:12 (edited)
    Proggy
    Next time tell him not to send it to you over the internet... You sick f*ck!

    gwen beck
  • HOMBRE Proggy 2012/08/20 01:03:30
  • Proggy HOMBRE 2012/08/20 01:15:03
  • Proggy HOMBRE 2012/08/20 01:15:03
  • HOMBRE Proggy 2012/08/20 01:17:59
  • akgold Proggy 2012/08/20 15:14:05
    akgold
    Gosh, a billboard dedicated to a few thousand voters from an election that had tens of millions of voters.
    A whole lot more voted for him because of his color(RACIST), than voted against him because of his color(RACIST).
  • zapped Proggy 2012/08/20 01:02:45
    zapped
    +3
    great another progressive liberal identified ........!
  • ★Calliope★ Proggy 2012/08/20 00:52:18
    ★Calliope★
    +3
    You are the race baiter dear, not I Just a proggie race baiting thing. I've no use for you. You are irrelevant.
  • Proggy ★Calliope★ 2012/08/20 01:13:59
    Proggy
    If you don't like the truth, do what you usually do, deny and ignore it. You're erroneous.
  • ★Calliope★ Proggy 2012/08/20 01:16:06
    ★Calliope★
    +2
    Nope.

    You have that sewn up, too.
  • ★Calliope★ Proggy 2012/08/19 01:58:50
    ★Calliope★
    +9
    NOT TO MENTION PRIVATE JETS FOR THE LIKES OF PELOSI.
  • Barefoo... ★Calliope★ 2012/08/19 04:22:15
    Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL
    +3
    They don't count Calli don't cha know?
  • ★Calliope★ Barefoo... 2012/08/20 00:53:01
    ★Calliope★
    +4
    They whine so much for this garbage. Then it's crickets when you point out the obvious...
  • Barefoo... ★Calliope★ 2012/08/20 01:16:55
    Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL
    +3
    lol.....I know they are such a trip aren't they? Little minions doing the biding but haven't no idea what they are talking about....just parroting..lol
  • RJ~PWCM... Proggy 2012/08/19 02:23:08
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +8
    Did you read the title of the post? No.

    It was:

    What things were invented without government help?
  • Proggy RJ~PWCM... 2012/08/19 04:15:28 (edited)
    Proggy
    Did you read your statement in the body of your post?

    It was:

    "When it's done, we'll print it out and send it to Mr. YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT. On a laser printer. Via FedEx."

    By the way, please tell me what do all of FedEx trucks use to deliver those packages? What do their planes use to take off from, land, and dock and unload unload their freight?
  • RJ~PWCM... Proggy 2012/08/19 04:19:42 (edited)
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +4
    Who invented the government that collected the taxes to pay for the roads etc?


    "We the People ... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
  • Ballade... Proggy 2012/08/19 02:34:23
    Balladeer-PWCM-POTL
    +8
    you mean like the CEO of GE?
  • Jack Sprat Ballade... 2012/08/19 03:45:04
    Jack Sprat
    +6
    Yea, he only needs them to go fill up the cargo bay with taxpayer dough and take it to China
  • Proggy Ballade... 2012/08/19 04:14:10
    Proggy
    and the CEO of Chase Bank, Koch Industries, Exxon/Mobile, and CHICK-FIL-A!
  • Ballade... Proggy 2012/08/19 05:13:10
    Balladeer-PWCM-POTL
    +4
    don't forget goldman-Sachs those evil bankers one happens to be your Fuehrer's Sec of treasury
  • RJ~PWCM... Ballade... 2012/08/19 12:32:47
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +3
    That IS a rather huge Liberal blind spot, isn't it?
  • Barefoo... RJ~PWCM... 2012/08/19 12:46:23
    Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL
    +2
    lol....yes it does....if it has a (D) after is name it is sanctified!
  • Prairie... ★Calliope★ 2012/08/19 03:20:47
    Prairie Wind
    +5
    The guy left out Al Gores "creation" of the Internet, the Obama financed ponzi scam of the global warming fantasy and the dry cleaning costs of cleaning Clinton's dribbles from Lewenski's dress!
  • ★Calliope★ Prairie... 2012/08/20 00:54:40 (edited)
    ★Calliope★
    +2
    Ah, so good of you to remind him!

    Not that I think he'll acknowledge how lovely and wonderful you were to do that!
  • Prairie... ★Calliope★ 2012/08/20 04:53:17
    Prairie Wind
    +1
    i think we're both grinning!
  • ★Calliope★ Prairie... 2012/08/20 09:55:42
    ★Calliope★
    +1
    You got it!
  • Barefoo... ★Calliope★ 2012/08/19 04:18:25
    Barefooted Nana ∞ijm♥∞AFCL
    +1
    EXCELLENT!!!
  • Htcbm1 2012/08/18 21:53:53
    Htcbm1
    +8
    Life, love, personal acheivement, cars, boats and anything you can emagine... There use to be a time where the role of government ment to secure an protect the people, now it seems that government is a never ending intrusion in controlling the people...

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